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TitleThe Reader

Creator nameManet, Edouard

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1861

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions39 1/4 x 32 in. (99.7 x 81.3 cm)

LocationSaint Louis Art Museum

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/5189/

Accession number254:1915

SubjectsPainting, French--19th centuryBooks and reading in artMen--Portraits

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5. The Promises of a Face

Nancy Locke

Manet and the Family Romance

MANET EXECUTED AN ETCHING and a lithograph of the artist Berthe Morisot (figs. 75 and 76), both apparently after the oil on canvas portrait with violets of 1872 (fig. 77). While a friend and I were looking at examples of the...

Author

Nancy Locke

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.147-171

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00272.006

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-21830&redirecttoanchor=21289

Chapter subject tags:Artists--Family relationshipsMorisot, Berthe, 1841-1895Impressionism (Art)--FranceMeurent, VictorinePsychoanalysis

Manet’s Picture Construction

Anne Coffin Hanson

Manet and the Modern Tradition

~The earliest known works by Manet are copies after the masters—certainly an acceptable and appropriate beginning for an aspiring young artist. A great many of his copies must have disappeared, but what remains attests to Couture’s guidance toward masters of painterly technique : Titian, Tintoretto, Rembrandt, Delacroix, and Velasquez...

Author

Anne Coffin Hanson

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.155-176

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00079.018

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15979&redirecttoanchor=21289

Chapter subject tags:Manet, Édouard, 1832-1883Painting, French--19th centuryPainting--Technique--France--HistoryPainting, French--Spanish influencesCouture, Thomas, 1815-1879Monet, Claude, 1840-1926Artists' materials--France--19th centuryArt--Exhibitions--France--19th century

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